Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the feature sections, Religion, Medicine, Education and Video drew the most reaction. Of course, mail does not always parallel interest: the year's biggest seller on the newsstands, "Babies: What Do They Know? When Do They Know It?", drew a moderate 299 letters, only 14th highest for the year...
...week on the Harvard Lecture circuit--that is if you're interested in nuclear weapons, immigration or the Caribbean. Heading the ticket at the Forum at the Institute of Politics is Notre Dame President and general academic big-wig the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, speaking on "Science, Religion, and the Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week is Jamaica's Prime...
...legacy is a penchant for violence, a belief that the gun as much as the cross is a source of salvation. Says Professor Majid Fakhri of the American University of Beirut: "There is something very medieval about the Christian outlook. A type of feudalism exists in which politics and religion are intertwined in a literal...
Modern Lebanon is a strictly sectarian society: citizens must carry an identity card giving their religious affiliation. Although the two main currents of religion are Christian and Muslim, each is a mosaic of supporting and frequently feuding parts. As a result, there are 17 recognized religious groups: five are Muslim, one is Jewish and eleven are Christian (among them Maronite, Greek, Armenian and Syrian Catholics and their Orthodox counterparts...
...equality of mediocrity under which all will suffer. As with other revolutions, repression of familial ties [as represented by fraternities and sororities] is a key ingredient of success "What a coincidence, Muffy, is it that there is no freedom of speech in the Soviet Union, no freedom of religion, no free press--and also no fraternities...